Education and the Limits of Reason
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Education and the Limits of Reason

Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov

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Education and the Limits of Reason

Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov

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In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful.

Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, the authors demonstrate that literature can allow us to see how reason is understood and expressed, contested and compromised – by distinctive individuals, under particular circumstances, in complex and varied relations with others. Novels, plays and short stories can take us into the workings of a rational or irrational mind and show how the inner world of cognitive activity is shaped by external events. Perhaps most importantly, literature can prompt us to ask searching questions of ourselves; it can unsettle and disturb, and in so doing can make an important contribution to our educational formation.

An original and thought provoking work, Education and the Limits of Reason offers a fresh perspective on classic texts by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, and encourages readers to reconsider conventional views of teaching and learning. This book will appeal to a wide range of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, literature and philosophy.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781135050597
Edition
1
Topic
Pedagogía
Subtopic
Educación general

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: education and the limits of reason
  6. 1 Troubling reason: Notes from Underground revisited
  7. 2 Love, attention and teaching: The Brothers Karamazov
  8. 3 Passion as a quality of education: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  9. 4 Education, rationality and the meaning of life: Tolstoy’s Confession
  10. 5 Pedagogy of the gaze: an educational reading of Lolita
  11. 6 Education arrayed in time: Nabokov and the problem of time and space
  12. Conclusion: literature, philosophy and education
  13. References
  14. Credits
  15. Index